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Walmart opened Supermercado de Walmart locations to appeal to Hispanic communities in the United States. [164] The first one, a 39,000-square-foot (3,600-square-meter) store in the Spring Branch area of Houston , opened on April 29, 2009. [ 165 ]
Today, Walmart operates more than 10,500 stores around the globe, with a total of 1.7 million employees. Though its success as a company seems ubiquitous, the U.S. retailer hasn’t prospered ...
By 1988, Wal-Mart was the most profitable retailer in the United States, [7] though it did not outsell K-Mart and Sears in terms of value of items purchased until late 1990 or early 1991. By 1988, Walmart was operating in 27 states , having expanded into Arizona , Michigan , Ohio , West Virginia , New Jersey , and Wyoming .
As the Supercenter proved to be a much more profitable experiment, Walmart renamed the stores "Wal-Mart's Hypermart USA" in April 1990, and eventually began either converting them to Supercenter operations or closing them. As of 2023, two of the former Hypermart USA locations still operate as Walmarts while the other two have been demolished.
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